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“Without delaying the full use of the existing set of instruments, we need a comprehensive framework to complement our toolbox with new legal instruments — in a lean and non-bureaucratic way,” they wrote. The leaders of the EU’s two largest economies want a new tool that would empower Brussels to exclude imports from certain countries. The proposal arrives before Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič flies to Beijing for talks on Thursday, the final round of a four-month process in which Brussels hopes to rebalance its trading relationship with China. The Anti-Coercion Instrument, also known as the EU’s trade “bazooka,” in theory gives…
France and Germany have proposed new powers for the European Commission to counter market distortions as the EU confronts mounting trade pressure from China. In a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday, accompanied by a policy paper on global economic imbalances, Paris and Berlin called for tools to restrict access to the EU market, diversify supplies and prepare for possible retaliation. Brussels describes its economic relationship with Beijing as unsustainable, with the EU’s trade deficit reaching an estimated €1 billion a day in 2025. It has given China until this month to offer concessions. The issue…
By Serguei Doubine & Euronews Russian Published on 05/10/2026 – 15:02 GMT+2•Updated 16:29 Russian health authorities said on Monday that a laboratory assistant at an anti-plague institute in Siberia who died last week did not have plague, even as quarantine restrictions remained in place across multiple hospitals in the region. Daria Shipilova, 28, a staff member at the anti-plague institute in Irkutsk, may have contracted pneumonic plague after a test tube broke in the laboratory, regional outlets reported, citing unnamed sources close to regional security services. Authorities placed more than 60 institute employees under isolation inside the building from Friday. A relative of…
If you’re heading to Japan for an active holiday you should lace up your walking boots and tackle a 320km-long hiking trail that is now fully open. The Hitachinokuni Long Trail, Japan’s longest loop trail, has been in the works for seven years since first announced in 2019 by the Ibaraki Prefecture and the Hitachi Province Trail Club. Now having opened in September, the hiking destination links six cities and towns across the northern Ibaraki Prefecture, less than a two-hour train ride away from Tokyo. Connecting Kitaibaraki, Takahagi, Hitachi, Hitachi Ota, Hitachi Omiya and Daigo, the route takes hikers through…
The humble apple is one of the most affordable, widely grown and popular fruits in our diet. But have you ever wondered how this fruit travelled across continents and eventually landed on your table? For years, the apples’ story was shrouded in mystery. Thanks to genetic research, we now know that two wild apple species, Malus sieversii from Central Asia and Malus sylvestris from Europe, played key roles in the transformation of the apples. Nestled in the Tian Shan mountains of Central Asia, forests of Malus sieversii, or the wild Sievers apple, still thrive. This species was named after the…
Population growth has added pressure in major urban centers. Spain has gained more than 3 million residents since 2015, including 793,000 in Madrid, 556,000 in Barcelona and 279,000 in Valencia — all cities where housing costs have risen sharply. Sánchez has not been blind to the crisis, calling housing the country’s “great constitutional challenge.” In 2023, he pledged to use “all state resources” to provide 184,000 public and affordable rental homes. But when the government last provided a detailed accounting of the effort, in August 2024, it said only 14,000 homes had been “made available to citizens” through a social…
Pedro Sánchez has lost control of the narrative – and that’s why he’s calling a snap election. In eight years in office, the Spanish prime minister has survived every obstacle thrown his way, proving himself as cunning as he is ruthless. He has reshaped Spanish politics, transformed his party and remade the left. He is the ultimate political operator. But that only works if you control the conversation. Since the Ceuta crisis broke – a stampede that saw more than 70,000 migrants cross into the enclave in what became the worst national security breach in modern Spanish history – Sánchez…
Thousands of pilgrims walked through the night to the Basilica of Our Lady of Lujan, one of Argentina’s biggest Catholic gatherings. Crowds queued at dawn to get in, and many held images of the Virgin Mary. Inside, some people rested on the floor, and others had bandages wrapped around their feet after hours on the road. Priests sprinkled holy water on the crowd and celebrated mass. Many in the crowd also brought pictures of Pope Leo XIV, who plans to visit the country in November 2026. For some, that made this year’s walk feel more important.
Published on 05/10/2026 – 12:42 GMT+2•Updated 12:43 Elon Musk is changing the name of his combined AI and space company SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, embracing US President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming artificial intelligence as super intelligence in all government communication. Musk only recently renamed xAI as SpaceXAI, about 90 days ago, after SpaceX’s June stock market debut and February takeover of the company. The agreement valued SpaceX at $1 trillion (€892bn) and xAI at $250 billion (€223bn). The South African tech tycoon revealed that the company is making the change yesterday in a reply to a user on his social…
“Russia is determined to bring Ukraine to its knees this coming winter,” Jäger said. “We must expect Russian attacks of a severity and brutality that we have not yet seen on this scale. The war in Ukraine is entering a new and extremely dangerous phase.” Jäger’s comments come a day after a politically weakened Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Kyiv in what appeared to be an attempt to show resolve following two first-place finishes by the Kremlin-friendly Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in regional elections last month. Those AfD victories, blamed in large part on the chancellor’s historically low domestic approval…